Germans move into the lead

But Outteridge and Jensen are on a charge at the 49er Worlds in Zadar

Tuesday May 8th 2012, Author: Jerelyn Biehl, Location: Croatia

Perfect Mediterranean conditions were served up for the second day of racing for the Seiko 49er World Championship in Zadar, Croatia with flat water and tight racing in 8-15 knots under cloudless skies. This was perfect for spectators as well, as the two races courses are held just off the SC Uskok’s beach.

After day three Tobias Schadewaldt and Hannes Baumann, Germany’s 2012 Olympic representatives, have moved into the lead ahead of Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski (POL), who are now tied with current 49er World champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen (AUS) who moved up once the discard came into play.

“We had a good day on the score card today posting a three, five, two but it was a difficult day as it was light again and racing was very close,” said Outteridge. “It’s nice to be consistent and that’s our main strength so hopefully as the days go by we can keep things rolling and keep jumping up the leaderboard. The conditions today did even things out a little, though with it still being qualifying it won’t be until the finals start where the real gains and losses will be made,” he said. “We’re after more of the same tomorrow before the important racing starts on Thursday.”

The top five positions for the Olympic qualifying countries are beginning to sort out although there’s still several countries in contention. Bermudan brothers Jesse and Zander Kirkland remain at the top of the list sitting in 17th overall followed by Japan’s Yukio Makino and
Kenji Takahashi. Pietro and Gianfranco Sibello (ITA) are getting back in form in 20th overall. Canada’s Gordon Cook and Hunter Lowden, Greek sailors Dionisis Dimou and Mihalis Pateniotis round out the top five countries still in the hunt.

International Race Officer David Campbell James, who oversaw course A, commented: “It was one of the best days sailing we’ve had, with 4 fantastic starts; we had three races for blue and one for red - flat water, steady wind, making target time for all the races. We started with 7-8 knots in the first race with 12-13 for the last race and incredibly steady wind. Tomorrow we’ll have a later start at 12:00.”

The forecast is for 12-15 knots for tomorrow’s racing with consistent wind and clear skies.

Top 50 results:

Pos Nat Helm Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Tot Net
1 GER Tobias Schadewaldt Hannes Baumann 2 3 5 1 3 -8 22 14
2 POL Lukasz Przybytek Pawel Kolodzinski 1 4 5 4 -12 3 29 17
3 AUS Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen 3 -11 4 3 5 2 28 17
4 FIN Lauri Lehtinen Kalle Bask 4 2 -17 5 2 5 35 18
5 DEN Peter Kruger-Andersen Nicolai Thorsell 2 4 -12 4 8 1 31 19
6 ESP Federico Alonso Tellechea Arturo Alonso 6 -8 1 4 6 4 29 21
7 POL Tomasz Januszewski Jacek Nowak 3 3 -20 11 2 2 41 21
8 POR Jorge Lima Josa Luis Costa 1 6 6 -14 8 1 36 22
9 FRA Manu DYEN Stephane CHRISTIDIS -12 6 3 2 1 10 34 22
10 POL Marcin Czajkowski Jacek Piasecki -9 2 1 5 7 7 31 22
11 FRA Julien d'Ortoli Noa Delpech -15 1 7 8 3 3 37 22
12 GER Justus Schmidt Max Boehme 7 2 2 3 9 -17 40 23
13 NZL Peter Burling Blair Tuke 2 7 2 -8 7 6 32 24
14 FRA Ribeaud Thomas Scotto di Fasano Sabastien 8 15 1 1 2 -19 46 27
15 GER Erik Heil Thomas Ploessel -18 5 17 3 4 2 49 31
16 FRA Axel Silvy Ulysse Hoffmann -17 10 8 2 1 11 49 32
17 BER Jesse Kirkland Alexander Kirkland 6 1 4 (BFD) 5 16 58 32
18 NZL Marcus Hansen Josh Porebski 5 5 8 8 -10 6 42 32
19 JPN Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi 11 1 6 1 (OCS) 14 59 33
20 ITA Pietro Sibello Ganfranco Sibello 7 -14 4 9 10 6 50 36
21 DEN Allan Norregaard Peter Lang 5 7 -11 7 9 8 47 36
22 CRO Pavle Kostov Petar Cupac 1 14 -23 6 5 13 62 39
23 CAN Gordon Cook Hunter Lowden 9 10 3 7 -13 10 52 39
24 AUT Nico Delle - Karth Nikolaus Leopold Resch 12 13 -15 2 1 13 56 41
25 GRE Dionisis Dimou Mihalis Pateniotis 4 9 11 -15 10 10 59 44
26 ITA Jacopo Plazzi Umberto molineris 18 4 18 (RAF) 4 3 73 47
27 MLT benji borg Sebastian ripard 3 -17 10 17 6 11 64 47
28 DEN Jonathan Bay Christopher Thorsell 8 9 -21 11 8 11 68 47
29 RUS Pavel Kalynchev Pavel Karachov 13 5 -20 9 3 18 68 48
30 SWE Jonas von Geijer Niclas Dalring 12 6 3 13 -20 15 69 49
31 AUS Luke Parkinson Jasper Warren -23 19 6 13 7 4 72 49
32 POR Bernardo Freitas Francisco Andrade 9 11 -22 16 6 7 71 49
33 FRA Mathieu Frei Yann Rocherieux 16 11 2 13 11 -17 70 53
34 GRE Stylianos Soliriou Alfonso Panagiotidis 14 14 (BFD) 6 12 7 79 53
35 CAN Jon Ladha Daniel Inkpen 7 13 13 -18 11 9 71 53
36 RUS Artem Basalkin Alexander Gaydaenko 15 (OCS) 10 5 16 8 80 54
37 CHI Pablo Herman Luis Felip Herman 10 20 16 (BFD) 4 5 81 55
38 SWE Charlie Ekberg Kalle Torlan 6 12 (BFD) 12 13 14 83 57
39 URU Santiago Silveira Philipp Umpierre 13 16 -24 10 14 5 82 58
40 SWE Carl P Sylvan Otto Hamel 10 -22 12 7 14 16 81 59
41 IRL Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern 15 12 -18 14 18 1 78 60
42 GER Philipp Müller Moritz Janich 4 13 10 17 16 -20 80 60
43 BEL Yannick Lefbvre Matthieu Janssens 11 9 14 12 14 -21 81 60
44 MEX Jorge Murrieta Alejandro Murrieta -16 16 9 15 12 9 77 61
45 AUT Thomas Zajac Thomas Czajka 23 8 (BFD) 10 9 12 88 62
46 DEN Niels Joachim Gormsen Anders Thomsen 11 15 9 9 -19 18 81 62
47 ESP Carlos Paz Anton Paz 20 3 16 6 (OCS) 18 89 63
48 EST Tonis Haavel Lenart Kivistik 14 -18 11 11 13 14 81 63
49 RUS Alexey Chekrygin Vitaly Russu -22 10 12 21 15 9 89 67
50 GER Jan Hauke Erichsen Max Lutz 17 19 13 15 -20 4 88 68

 

Latest Comments

Add a comment - Members log in

EmailPrintTwitterFacebookLinkedInStumbleDigg

Latest news!

Back to top
    Back to top